Word: conscious
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...rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience’ in my interview. I don’t really even know what it means, or if it is accurate, and I don’t want Harvard comp lit junior faculty making...
...those of you without access to VH1, here’s a quick and dirty history of popular music from the mid-’90s: The legendary hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest were producing socially conscious, jazz-inflected rap, and people were still pretending to care about “electronica.” There was also “The Macarena,” but the less said of that the better...
...York City. The design of the residence is carpenter's gothic, "a patchwork of conceits, borrowings, deceptions... a hodgepodge of good intentions like one last ridiculous effort at something worth doing even on this small a scale." This description is a key to Gaddis' own architecture: a self-conscious scaling down of his earlier books, in which issues of decline and fraudulence were elaborately developed...
...materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under Communism, Bll was considered Germany's most influential writer since Thomas Mann, and in conscious evocation of his predecessor he was often called "the conscience of the nation...
...their English-speaking compatriots, the Afrikaners share an unresolved dilemma: how to prepare their country for the future. The Afrikaners in particular are frozen in a time frame by their dour Calvinist faith and their history. Immigrants who first arrived from Europe almost 350 years ago, they are most conscious of the fact that, unlike the former colonialists of the Gold Coast or Mozambique, they have no place to go back to. Out of hand they reject all talk of one man, one vote, maintaining that it would be "one man, one vote, one time," and then black tyranny forever...